The HYPOPLECTRUS species of the Hamlet/Seabass-Serranidae Family, are beautiful reef decoration fishes, some ichthyologists (fish specialists) considere all of them to be variations of only one specie, Butter Hamlet; but to my eyes and taste, they are all gorgeous!!
Before Hurricane Wilma came by, seven sub-species used to be found together in only one reef area, Chankanaab boulders; not anymore though, for the last two years have not seen the seven species again there, some of them not even in other reefs.
YELLOWTAIL HAMLET (Hypoplectrus chlorurus)
Another of the rare, very rare residents of Cozumel waters, the only one member of this subspecie sighted in the whole Island's reefs, used to live before Wilma right on top and around the second cave of the range formed by the majority of the caves and not the caves at the end of the Wall in Santa Rosa, not seen that often but had a chance of taking few pictures of it to show my fish teacher I was not lying when I told her I saw one, too bad in two years we have not found it again anywhere in Cozumel
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